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Tannhäuser opera in three acts

Title: Tannhäuser [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (228 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 29, 1955]

Uniform Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subject

Operas

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:45:53 (synopses and features) ; 3:02:54 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news,

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 29, 1955.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 416 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Norman Dello Joio, host, with Kurt Adler and Mary Watkins Cushing) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Robert Bagar, Ruby Mercer, Francis Robinson and Walter Ducloux) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Prelude ; Act 1 through "Zieh 'hin Wahnsinniger" -- side 3. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 through "Gepriesen March" -- side 4. Act 2 concluded -- side 5. Introduction ; Act 3 through "O du mein holder Abendstern" -- side 6. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 6082

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Tannhäuser [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

004553 030254

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 29, 1955]

Performer

Jerome Hines (Landgraf) ; Ramon Vinay (Tannhäuser) ; George London (Wolfram) ; Giulio Gari (Walther) ; Clifford Harvuot (Biterolf) ; Paul Franke (Heinrich) ; Norman Scott (Reinmar) ; Astrid Varnay (Elisabeth) ; Blanche Thebom (Venus) ; Heidi Krall (A young shepherd) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Rudolf Kempe, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 19, no. 12 (Jan. 24, 1955).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 29, 1955.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 416 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Hines, Jerome, 1921- Performer

Vinay, Ramon. Performer

London, George, 1920-1985. Performer

Gari, Giulio. Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer

Varnay, Astrid. Performer

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

Krall, Heidi. Performer

Kempe, Rudolf, 1910-1976. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Dello Joio, Norman, 1913-2008. Commentator

Adler, Kurt Herbert. Commentator

Cushing, Mary Watkins. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Mercer, Ruby. Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 6082 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 416 (F)

*LTCM 416 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 6082.

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